I have a prepayment electricity meter, it was already installed when I moved in.
It’s never really bothered me, I usually top it up with £150-£200 a time and that lasts for 5-6ish months.
I worked out a couple of years ago that we were using around £35 a month electricity, (and this was with me working from home full time).
With the rising costs the new prepayment rate is significantly higher than normal meters and I decided try to get the meter changed, but had no luck.
I then saw the Martin Lewis hack, where if you top up as much as possible you will stay on the current rate until you top up again, so I went and topped up £500.
I went to put it onto the meter this morning and was shocked to find it still had £102 credit still on it,
The last time I topped up was £150 at the start of January.
That means over the last three months we have used less than £16 per month electricity.
I don’t understand how this is possible.
I work from home and my laptop and pc are on most of the day, my teenage DS has a pc he plays games on as well as a tv he watches most evenings.
The only difference we’ve made is I bought an airfryer in the Black Friday sales, so we barely use the oven at all anymore.
But it just doesn’t seem possible to use so little electricity.
We do try to be energy efficient, we have led bulbs and switch plugs off when not in use, but £16 just seems like an impossible amount.
Should I be contacting my supplier to get the meter checked in case something is wrong with it?
Or should I just leave it and hope it’s correct?